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What he loved and admired was not so much the fair, frank face itself, as the lofty Cornelia-like spirit behind it. And yet, he hesitated. Could he accept the sacrifice this white soul wished to make for him? Could he aid and abet her in raising up for herself so much undeserved obloquy? Could he help her to become Anathema maranatha among her sister women?
Her features were aquiline and very regular: altogether there was something about her majestic and Cornelia-like. She might have sat for the model of that Roman matron, except for the fairness of her Anglo-Saxon complexion. "What's your pleasure?" she asked, in a cold and somewhat stern voice. "Ma'am," answered Kenelm, uncovering, "I have called to see Mr.
Her features were aquiline and very regular: altogether there was something about her majestic and Cornelia-like. She might have sat for the model of that Roman matron, except for the fairness of her Anglo-Saxon complexion. "What's your pleasure?" she asked, in a cold and somewhat stern voice. "Ma'am," answered Kenelm, uncovering, "I have called to see Mr.
Clambering down from the chair on which she sat perched to show me, Cornelia-like, her jewels, she ran straight out of the room and into the bar it was just across the passage, and I could hear her telling her mother in loud tones, but apparently more in sorrow than in merriment, that the gentleman in the parlour wanted to kiss Dolly.
Our readers probably remember what Mrs. Hutchinson tells us of herself. The lofty Cornelia-like spirit of the aged matron seems to melt into a long forgotten softness when she relates how her beloved Colonel 'married her as soon as she was able to quit the chamber, when the priest and all that saw her were affrighted to look on her.
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